ballad
has definitions from the fields of verse,writing,music,fine art
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
Synonyms Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)He was also at_the_same_time gaining practical experience as a safe_breaker and highwayman , and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene_Geary , later committed to Chester_Asylum as a homicidal maniac , but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor . (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)Though versatile and capable of turning_out a ballad lyric with the best of them , Mercer 's forte is a highly polished quasi folk wit . Related terms |
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